Short Description The Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe (STP) is an Island state in Sub-Saharan Africa with approximately 200,000 inhabitants. Laboratory diagnostics for SARS-CoV-2 using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a crucial component in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the insufficient diagnostic capacity to detect…
Short Description Establishing a freely-accessible, comprehensive, and user-friendly registry of systematic reviews on vaccinations and vaccine-preventable diseases is at the core of this project. An accompanying E-learning course offers step-by-step guidance on how to use existing reviews to develop vaccination recommendations for respective countries. The content of the course…
Short Description As the world comes together to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, it is critical that essential services and operations continue to protect the lives of people with Tuberculosis (TB). The COVID-19 pandemic is expected to reverse much of the progress that has been made in reducing TB-related morbidity and…
Short Description Vaccines are crucial public health measures to fight vaccine-preventable diseases, e.g. measles. Further, COVID-19 vaccines, once available, will be essential to fight the pandemic. In Cox’s Bazar, 860,697 Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals (FDMN)/Rohingya refugees live in camps. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), immunization rates among FDMN/Rohingya…
Short Description Compared to other regions in the world, the African continent is faced with a particularly high number of infectious diseases. These include acute fevers of unknown origin as well as anti-infective-resistant pathogens that have barely been examined to date. This demonstrates a significant shortcoming, as illustrated by the…
Short Description Since 2017, the TuNDRA project has been supported by the Global Health Protection Programme of the German Federal Ministry of Health. The project is carried out by a consortium consisting of the Robert Koch Institute, the International Vaccine Institute and partner institutions in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Hospital-based…
Short Description The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) was requested by the Government of Namibia to assist in the development and implementation of a “Namibia Institute for Public Health” (NIPH). The following areas were identified as the focus for cooperation between the Namibian Ministry of Health and Social Services and the…
Short Description PASQUALE is a project to increase patient safety in partner institutions (Faranah Regional Hospital, Guinea; Bouaké University Hospital, Ivory Coast). This project responds to the “Global Patient Safety Challenges” (GPSC) initiated by the World Health Organization. While PASQUALE 1 used the framework of the first challenge “Clean…
Short Description The aim of this project is to establish or deepen cooperation with project countries on equal footing in order to give scientific personnel from these countries access to new technologies and methods in the field of laboratory diagnostics and epidemiology. Qualified scientists from project countries are given the…